Privacy Policy

1. Who are the data controller and the data recipients of the personal information we collect about you?

Europcar International S.A.S.U, a ‘Société par Actions Simplifiée Unipersonnelle' whose registered office is located at EUROPCAR INTERNATIONAL SASU, Bat OP - 2, rue René Caudron, 78960 Voisins-le-Bretonneux, France and registered with the Registry of Commerce and Companies of Versailles under number: B 542 065 305 (hereinafter referred to as "We") is the data controller of the Personal information We collect about you on this website (the Website).

Such personal information is dedicated to Europcar Group companies, their franchisees, sub-contractors and partners and will be collected, processed and stored in accordance with French Data Protection Law.

2. What type of personal information do we collect about you?

Personal information collected about you

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide. This information is collected, notably when you:

Register / Become a Europcar member

Make an online reservation

Activate our eReady Service

Enroll in a Europcar Privilege loyalty programme

Subscribe to Europcar Newsletter / Email alerts

Participate in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes

Contact Europcar

Use our online services

Make a booking enquiry online

3. How do we use the data we collect - data transfer?

We collect and process your personal information in order to allow Europcar Group companies, their franchisees, sub-contractors and partners to provide you with the services ordered and the benefits in kind to which you subscribed.

Contact you by email about a booking you did not complete on the Europcar website

Send you a summary about a booking enquiry if you agree to provide your email address

Manage your loyalty program

Respond to your questions or suggestions

Improve the quality of your visit to our site

Send you our Newsletter should you wish so

Manage your participation to a sweepstake or a contest

Contact you in order to participate in customer surveys in order to improve our services

In order to allow us to provide you with effective services, We may from time to time transfer data collected by us to other Europcar Group companies or Europcar franchisees in the EU or outside the EU for the purposes set forth herein. Such transfer does not imply any restriction and our privacy policy will be fully applicable.

Certain recipients of these disclosures may be located in countries which data protection laws may not provide with a level of protection equivalent to French law. By accepting this Privacy Policy, your hereby authorize Europcar to transfer your data to the relevant personnel of the companies appointed by Europcar to perform the requested service.

Europcar has also contracted with third party service providers to manage our database and provide technical and any other support for the application. Your personal data may be disclosed and transferred to such third party service provider and other contractors as deemed necessary for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy. All third party service providers involved in the management of Europcar business have been engaged under a binding confidentiality agreement with Europcar, whereby said third party may act only upon the instruction of Europcar and have a limited access to Europcar database for the purposes of providing technical support.

4. Our partners and links to other websites

We have partnered with reputable third parties to offer you a variety of travel services. All travel services throughout our Website that are provided by a third-party partner are described as such. Although we only work with reputable third parties, our business partners may have different privacy policies and practices than Europcar.

There are also several places throughout our Website that may link you to other websites that do not operate under Europcar information privacy practices. When you click through to these web sites, Europcar websites information privacy practices no longer apply. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements for all third party websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information.

5. How we store & protect Personal Information - Data Security

We want our members and site visitors to feel confident about using our Website and making car rental reservations, so we are committed to protecting the information we collect.

We will retain your personal data for only as long as required under French law for the relevant purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Europcar and its third party service providers will use appropriate physical, technical and organizational security measures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss of or destruction of or damage to your personal data.

The Europcar network is a safe and secure online environment. Our systems are configured with data encryption, or scrambling technologies, and industry-standard firewalls. When you send personal information to a Europcar website over the Internet, your data is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure safe transmission.

Every credit card transaction you make at Europcar websites is done through our Secure Server Technology. This provides many security features, including: Authentication: this assures your browser that your data is being sent to the correct computer server, and that the server is secure.

Encryption: this encodes the data, so that it cannot be read by anyone other than the secure server.

Data Integrity: this checks the data being transferred to ensure it has not been altered.

6. How to access, update, correct or delete your Personal Information

We make reasonable efforts to ensure that the personal data we have about you is as accurate, current and complete as necessary for the purposes for which we use that data.

Under the French Data Protection Act, you have at any time a right to access, and oppose for legitimate reasons, the processing of your personal data as well as the right to update, correct or delete personal data collected by us that would be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated data, or those forbidden by law, by logging into your "My Europcar" profile or by contacting our main office in your country of residence.

You will find the address of our headquarters in the "Legal Mentions" section on our website. As an alternative, you may obtain the information by writing to us at:

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

You will also be able to change your password and secret question at any time by logging into your "My Europcar" profile.

7. How can I opt-in to receive promotional emails? - Our Opt-in Policy

As a Europcar member, you may occasionally receive, via email, information about our Products and Services, updates to our Site, customized advertisements and promotions that are targeted to your specific interest, such as special deals, promotions, contests, sweepstakes and other travel opportunities available on Europcar websites and/or sponsored by our travel service providers and advertisers. We send this information directly ourselves, or via third party service providers.

You will be sent these emails about our Site upon your request. You can subscribe in the "Profile" and "Alerts" pages of the My Europcar section, accessible through the main navigation bar of the Website or send us an email by clicking here.

At any time, you may decide that you do not want to receive any future marketing or promotional emails from us. In this case, you can unsubscribe in the "Profile" and "Alerts" pages of the My Europcar section, accessible through the main navigation bar of the Website or send us an email by clicking here.

In addition, in our emails and other communications, we will include instructions on how to unsubscribe.

We reserve the right to limit membership to those who will accept emails. Members will be notified via email prior to any actions taken.

8. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is likely to be updated. We therefore recommend that you regularly review this document in order to be fully aware of our commitments regarding the security and privacy of your Personal information. If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please Contact us.